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The awards will be presented at a ceremony at ILO in Geneva The judging panel for this year's International Seafarers' Welfare Awards has been announced. The awards will be presented at a ceremony at the International Labour Organisation in Geneva, Switzerland, on the opening night of the Maritime Labour Convention tripartite meeting on December 12. Netherlands-based Marco Polo Seatrade has been granted court permission to continue trading, a significant step forward in its restructuring process.

Lloyds List Global Award for the shipping industrys best innovation project The Lloyds List Global Award for the shipping industrys best innovation project 2011 was won by DNV. At a ceremony last night at the London Hilton Hotel, Chief Operating Officer Ioannis Kourmatzis accepted the award on behalf of DNV.When nominating, DNV chose Triality as its candidate among several innovation projects. Triality is a crude oil tanker concept that is fuelled by liquefied natural gas, has a hull shape that removes the need for ballast water and will reduce considerably emission to air.London-based Lloyd's List is the only global shipping newspaper with a daily circulation and is the world's oldest continuously published newspaper. Its first issue was released in 277 years ago - in 1734! Winning one of its global awards is ranked high."I'm really pleased and honoured to accept this award on behalf of a lot of competent, hardworking DNV colleagues," says Ioannis Kourmatzis, DNV's COO Europe & North Africa. "When the financial crisis hit the shipping industry in late 2008, DNV decided to increase its focus on innovation and new opportunities."For Triality a group of some 30 competent, mostly young people representing a wide set of disciplines was ...

An honour for its sustainable and environmentally conscious conduct Hamburg Süd has again been honoured for its sustainable and environmentally conscious conduct. First, in late July 2011, it received the Air Quality Award from the San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Group (backed by the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach). Just a few days later, it was the Gulf Guardian Award of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).The EPA conferred the Gulf Guardian Award on Hamburg Süd in the Binational category within the context of the Gulf of Mexico Programme because the shipping company had participated voluntarily in measures aimed at reducing emissions in the Gulf of Mexico. In these trials, Hamburg Süd called at the ports of Veracruz, Altamira and Houston with its container ship "Cap San Lorenzo" using Low Sulphur Marine Gas Oil (LSMGO), which has a sulphur content of 0.1 per cent.With the Air Quality Award, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach recognised innovative measures helping to reduce emissions and lower air pollution. In the case of Hamburg Süd, the shipping company was one of the leading participants in the Green Flag Programme of the Port of Long Beach, which, in 2010, ...

The award rewards the important work for improving environmental efficiency Green Marine received the prestigious Sustainable Shipping Award for Green Shipping Initiative of the Year for 2011 at the gala presentations held at the Radisson Blu Hotel in London, England.The award celebrates and rewards the important work that is going on worldwide to assist the marine industry in improving environmental efficiency. Other nominees in this category included Rightship, DNV, Royal Caribbean and the Carbon War Room.It was with great pride that David Bolduc, Green Marine's Executive Director, accepted the Green Shipping Initiative of the Year prize before an audience that included environmental and marine industry experts from throughout the world. The Green Marine initiative has grown rapidly since being launched just over three years ago he noted.This award is a testament to the initiatives success and, even more importantly, to the credibility and relevance of the Green Marine Environmental Program.Green Marines participants deserve to be recognized and applauded for the extraordinary efforts they have undertaken to improve their environmental performance, Mr. Bolduc added, which is why I would like to take this occasion to congratulate all of the shipowners, ports, terminals and shipyards participating in the program for their commitment ...

In connection with the awarding of the 2011 IMO Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea In connection with the IMO Council session last week, a panel decided to award the crew on board Charlotte Mærsk a diploma for special recognition of the brave efforts made during a fire on board their ship in 2010.The recognition was given in connection with the awarding of the 2011 IMO Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea.On 7 July 2010, a fire broke out on board Charlotte Mærsk, which had a cargo of 4142 containers on board, 45 nautical miles off the Malaysian coast. The fire arose in a container with dangerous goods, and the fire developed explosively. Soon it became clear to the crew that the fire was serious and presented a risk of spreading to, among other things, a container with liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).It was considered abandoning the ship, but the crew decided to fight the fire themselves and thereby contributed greatly to extinguishing the fire. The crew was ready to fight the fire 7 minutes after the alarm sounded. The crew carried out the fire-fighting activities on their own for the first 24 hours since assistance from the relevant authorities could ...

Dedicated to the Master of the chemical tanker Samho Jewelry The Council of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has unanimously endorsed the decision of a Panel of Judges that the 2011 IMO Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea should go to Captain Seog Hae-gyun of the Republic of Korea, Master of the chemical tanker Samho Jewelry.Captain Seog was nominated by the Government of the Republic of Korea for his heroic actions to keep his vessel and crew safe, while suffering vicious assaults, following a hijack by pirates off the coast of Somalia.The Council agreed that Captain Seog displayed truly extraordinary bravery and concern for his crew after his ship was hijacked in the Indian Ocean in January 2011, going far beyond the call of duty, at great risk and danger to himself. With the pirates onboard, Captain Seog steered the vessel away from the Somali coast, watered down the fuel to prevent combustion, pretended the steering gear was not working properly and reduced the vessels speed.He also managed, surreptitiously, to communicate information to naval forces, which facilitated a dramatic raid by commandos from the Republic of Koreas destroyer Choi Young. As a result, all 21 crew members were rescued.During the ...

DP World won the prestigious Golden Peacock Award for Environment Managemen DP World Nava Sheva at Jawaharlal Nehru Port in Mumbai, won the prestigious Golden Peacock Award for Environment Management at an awards ceremony held at the Leela Kempinski, New Delhi.The marine terminal was recognised for its many initiatives in environment management, some of which include optimising natural resources such as rain water, introducing Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses for the staff of DP World Nhava Sheva, changing the equipment and administration building lights to low energy using LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) to reduce electricity consumption, and organising an oil spill cleanup drive with employees to protect the mangroves and the marine environment around the terminal.India's Home Minister, the Honourable Shri P Chidambaram was the guest of honour at the ceremony, held during the 13th World Congress on Environment Management (WCEM).Receiving the award, Anil Singh, Senior Vice President & Managing Director DP World Subcontinent Region highlighted that DP World is a signatory of the Copenhagen Communiqué on Climate Change and said:"We are delighted that our environmental efforts in Mumbai have been recognised with this important award. We have initiated a wide range of environmental best practices across the region to ...

Announced at the Nor-Shipping Opening Conference on May 24, 2011 The awards, which showcase industry excellence, were presented by Norwegian Minister of Trade & Industry Trond Giske and Henrik Madsen, CEO of Det Norske Veritas (DNV). An independent jury considered a total of 40 candidates for the 2011 awards.The Clean Ship Award honors the shipowner and ship that has contributed to the greatest reduction of emissions to air or discharges to sea in relation to its function and operation. The inaugural award went to Vale S.A. for the Vale Brasil, an ore carrier with low emissions per ton of cargo that is expected to set a new standard for long-distance dry bulk carriers.The Next Generation Ship Award recognizes the yard, designer or owner with the most promising design idea for a ship that will be at sea in the coming decade, demonstrating the greatest advances to further the development of ocean transportation.The 2011 award was given to the Rolls-Royce Marine AS Environship Concept for a general cargo ship optimized to carry a combination of cargo typical for short sea shipping in Northern Europe. With LNG fuel and a dedicated design for short sea shipping, the emissions from this shipping segment ...